This interesting article comes from The Guardian newspaper – see https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/19/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past … during the height of the Covid panic. Probably why I missed it as the Guardian were seeking even greater draconian powers than Boris was prepared to go. As one might suspect, there are assumptions and a swallowing of the mainstream mantra. You would not expect any different. Nevertheless, it was interesting to read all the way through – hence its inclusion here. On page 5 we arrive at Gobekli Tepe and we are told that even though these enigmatic megalithic structures, apparently erected by a pre-farming society, they are not alone as an anomaly. It claims monumental structures were being erected elsewhere, even earlier in time. They were of course quite different from the stone circles in SE Anatolia – but monuments of a kind did exist during the Ice Age. They point a finger at the so called mammoth houses, as they were nicknamed. Huge constructions using the bones of mammoth, found from Poland to Ukraine, as well as Russia. They date to the Late Glacial Maximum. Early interpretations of these structures as houses is not accepted nowadays, as picked up by the author. They are some kind of monument commemorating some unknown event or concept. Of course, the author accepts that it all had to do with the hunt and they were erected by hunter gatherers in recognition of the success of the hunt. The idea arriving to them after having first eaten 3 or 4 mammoth, which took weeks to do as the animals were so large. Gorging on elephant meat. This sort of explanation is all they have when catastrophism is not recognised as a feature of the past. What if the mammoth bones came from animals that perished as a result of catastrophic events. They date to 25,000 years ago, we are told, not too distant from the Laschamp event around 42,000 years ago, or the mass die-off around 30,000 years ago – which ushered in the Late Glacial Maximum. If so what were they commemorating? I shall now have to find out more about the mammoth houses – and the new view of archaeologists.
Staying on a similar theme, at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/jiroft-culture-iran-lost-civilzation …. we arrive at an ancient city in SE Iran, near Jiroft. It takes us back deep into the Holocene, to the 5th millennium BC, at least. The city was at its apex in the Early Bronze Age – abandoned towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC, like so many other places. It was located on the Halil River and was an urban settlement that seems to have stretched for several miles across a plateau. It had cult buildings, or temples, and a fortified citadel. The people of the city seem to have been trading and communicating with Early Bronze cities in what is now Iraq. It was on the map, if you like – but where did the people go?